{"id":13464,"date":"2010-01-25T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13464"},"modified":"2010-01-26T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:35:00","slug":"rebagliati-rolls-the-olympic-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13464","title":{"rendered":"Rebagliati Rolls The Olympic Torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/27983_m15.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/27983_m15.jpg','popup','width=658,height=370,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/27983_m15-tm.jpg\" height=\"241\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"27983 M15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ross Rebagliati<\/strong>, the first snowboarder to ever win an Olympic Gold medal (and have it taken away and given back) took to the streets yesterday on a skateboard and carried the Olympic Torch for 300 meters near <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osoyoos.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Osoyoos, BC<\/a><\/strong> without smoking it. According to CTV it was pretty heavy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That was very, very exciting, emotional,&#8221; Mr. Rebagliati, 38, said after completing his torch run on wheels, as his wife, bundled-up baby and parents tried to keep up on the side of the highway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rebagliati took the opportunity to talk to the media about the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Prohibition didn&#8217;t work; this isn&#8217;t working,&#8221; he said after running with the torch, which some have even said resembles a giant joint. . . &#8220;You look at the numbers; it&#8217;s not helping by throwing people in jail. I think the thing we can focus on is helping people with addictions, taking a proactive view. . . How can we help people rather than throw them in jail?&#8221; Mr. Rebagliati was jubilant in his post-skateboard moment, and either forgot about his party&#8217;s edict that he not speak to the news media, or chose to ignore it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smoke two joints in the morning, smoke two joints at night. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvolympics.ca\/torch\/news\/newsid=28005.html\" target=\"_blank\">CTV Olympics<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Rebagliati, the first snowboarder to ever win an Olympic Gold medal (and have it taken away and given back) took to the streets yesterday on a skateboard and carried the Olympic Torch for 300 meters near Osoyoos, BC without smoking it. According to CTV it was pretty heavy. &#8220;That was very, very exciting, emotional,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13483,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions\/13483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}